Best Shared Hosting

There are various kinds of shared hosting plans suitable for different web sites in relation to the resources or the shared hosting platform they need. To choose the most relevant shared hosting service for your web page, you need to estimate what server-side software it demands, how many visits per day you anticipate at the start and in the future, as well as any other special needs that may need to be fulfilled.

Shared Web Hosting - Privileges

The most appropriate option for small size web portals with a few hundred or several thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this form of website hosting, each customer pays only for their account, which minimizes the overall cost per client considerably. There are different web hosting solutions varying from one web hosting company to another, offering different amounts of storage space and bandwidth, different electronic mail account quotas and so on. The good point is that you can obtain a plan that will offer the resources your site indeed requires. You will not need to pay a lot of cash for a package you will not avail of, or end up with a small size package that cannot shelter the web portal. We, at St. Clare Web Hosting, offer a large collection of shared hosting accounts suitable for personal or small business websites that even come with pre-activated script-based systems like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render it simpler. If you begin with a basic account and you demand more system resources, moving to a more powerful plan takes only a mouse click.

Shared Hosting - Minuses

A weakness of the shared website hosting solution is that the web servers have some software platforms installed on them and you are unable to install new software programs. Certain web pages, particularly online storefronts, request software applications to be installed on the web hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting environment, you can activate only software platforms that do not need complete root-level access.

Virtual Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For portals that require full root access, or if your web portal has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of visits per day, what you demand is a virtual private servers or a dedicated server. A virtual web hosting server is a virtual simulation of a dedicated hosting server and it performs in a precisely identical way.

Virtual Private Servers

Both environments normally come with complete root access and can be rebooted via a software tool by the user, independently from the web hosting company. Like the shared hosting packages, the virtual private servers and the dedicated server web hosting accounts involve diverse specifications depending on what the hosting supplier offers. A private virtual web server hosting account contains guaranteed server storage, random access memory and CPU quotas that can sometimes be extended for brief stretches of time provided that there are available resources on the physical server. With a dedicated hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware equipment it is utilizing, and it can be revved up by changing or adding components. A VPS is simpler to handle as it arrives with a virtualization software platform, which can be used to reboot it, to install software applications, monitor statistics, etc. The management of a dedicated hosting server is more intricate, so such an account would rather be resorted to by proficient customers.

Dedicated Hosting Servers

Yet, some providers provide managed dedicated web hosting services where they complete dedicated web hosting server administration operations on behalf of the customer. This can be included in the plan or an extra feature.

Prior To Choosing...

Choosing the top hosting package is essential as it can affect the proper performance of a online portal. Before choosing a package, compare the pros and cons, explore carefully all the preconditions for the web portal to operate properly, especially if it is script-driven. And if you are still unsure which is the best shared hosting service for you, check with our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be glad to help you and answer all your questions.